October 21, 2013

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Fall semester passing with no student crime alerts, fewer robberies

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Since the beginning of the fall semester, University Police have not sent any alerts to the university community about crime involving students on or off the campus.

This quiet start to the school year points to a larger decrease in crime and alcohol-related incidents, police said, along with increased collaboration among city and university officials. From Jan. 1 to Aug. 31, crime is down 37 percent from the same period in 2012, according to the department’s 2013 annual security report.

In 2008, police reported roughly 2.41 robberies per 10,000 people on the campus. But as of the end of September, that number had dropped to 0.21 robberies this year, University Police Maj. Marc Limansky said.

In addition, the number of alcohol transports has been cut in half this semester, according to University Police Chief David Mitchell. Resident Life officials said they tracked 15 alcohol transports between the start of the semester and Sept. 22, compared to 30 incidents during the same period in 2012.

“Suffice it to say, we are pleased with the trend,” Mitchell said.

The downward trend in crime on the campus comes from a combination of factors and years of collaboration with city and university officials, Limansky said.

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By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer

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As Nikita Whitlock overpowered center Sal Conaboy in the fi rst play of Saturday’s Terrapins football game at Wake Forest, it became clear the Terps might be in for a long day.

The Wake Forest nose tackle sacked quarterback C.J. Brown

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for a 14-yard loss. The Terps punted three plays later, and the Demon Deacons responded with a touchdown. And as the overcast afternoon in Winston-Salem, N.C., wore on, the tough start would unfold into a

LeFrak program helps kids LEAP toward language skill Individualized school instructs 14 children

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By Natalie Tomlin @thedbk Staff writer The fourth annual College Park Day brought together more guests than ever before to celebrate local businesses and diversity in the College Park community.

With live music, entertainment for kids, more than 80 vendors and a farmers market, the festival at the Herbert Wells Ice Rink offered a variety of attractions on Saturday, and city officials said they were impressed with how students and residents came together both to organize and enjoy the event.

“Part of this [day] is to highlight local businesses,” College Park Mayor Andy Fellows said. “The Gymkana troupe being here from the university and other student volunteers — it’s just a really good engagement with the university.”

college park day saw more patrons than ever in its fourth year. More than 80 vendors, a farmers market and other draws filled the streets by the Herbert Wells Ice Rink east of the Metro station. rebecca rainey/the diamondback Guests watched Gy m kana perform multiple vaulting acts throughout the day. This was its first time participating in College Park Day, and junior civil engineering major Kirby O’Connell said it was another opportunity for the troupe to entertain people outside of the university.

Another campus organization, Operation Gratitude, set up a table at the event to engage the locals in its campaign to create care packages for the military.

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WIDE RECEIVER STEFON DIGGS fractured his fibula in the fourth quarter of the Terps’ 34-10 loss at Wake Forest on Saturday in Winston-Salem, N.C., and the sophomore will miss the rest of the season. He had eight catches for 67 yards at the time of his injury, which occurred on a tackle. photo courtesy of adrian martino/the old gold & black

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nightmare scenario for the Terps.

Wake Forest defeated the Terps, 34-10, before an announced 27,807 at BB&T Field. Brown was benched in favor of backup Caleb Rowe in the third quarter, and star wide receivers Deon Long and Stefon Diggs were lost for the season with broken legs.

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The National Association of the Deaf and the two deaf Terrapins sports patrons who sued the university in September for inadequate captioning at sporting events fi led a second complaint Wednesday with additional violations.

Along with failing to provide captioning for announcer’s comments on scoreboards and Jumbotrons, the university lacks captioning on media published on the athletic department’s website, said Joseph Espo, the attorney representing Sean Markel and Joseph Innes, the two patrons. These include videos of entire sporting events, press conferences, event clips and radio streams, Espo said. He added that the captioning services the university says it provides aren’t adequate.

For six years, Markel and Innes, who are deaf, have been asking the university for better ways to communicate announcers’ comments on scoreboards, LED ribbon boards and Jumbotrons at Byrd Stadium and Comcast Center. The university doesn’t display captioning for referee calls, safety and emergency information, commentary during the game, half-time entertainment or game press conferences, according to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

The two men had been going to games for at least 20 years, and the

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biology major Jamie Schofield said College Park Day was an opportunity to publicize Operation Gratitude and engage the campus with the rest of the city.

“It’s awesome,” he said. “I didn’t even know it was a thing until this year, but it’s great. There are a lot of people out here.”

Food vendors included Curbside Cupcakes, Bill’s Backyard BBQ and some popular Washington food trucks — Mighty Dogs & Acai Shakes and See festival, Page 2

The playground outside LeFrak Hall is for more than just recess — it’s an integral part of a 20-yearold language-learning program through which kids not only learn to play but also develop one of the most fundamental skills of human society: language and speech.

The Language-Learning EarlyAdvantage Program, a preschool prog ra m r u n on t he ca mpu s through the hearing and speech sciences department, focuses on language-based learning and is designed for children who have primary speech and language delays. The program celebrated its 20th anniversary in September.

“We really have a three-part mission: to train students, to serve the public and to conduct research,” said Dianne Handy, the

leap participants in the playground outside LeFrak Hall, the site of the program. james levin/the diamondback LEAP preschool director.

Undergraduate and graduate students seeking a degree within the hearing and speech sciences department teach the LEAP classes, which include six to eight 3- to 5-year-old children. The classes, which run in the spring, summer and fall, have a student-teacher ratio of about 1-to-1.

Located in LeFrak’s basement, LEAP looks like a regular preschool classroom — there are inviting wall decorations and posters, blocks and toys, games and bulletin boards arranged in a homey, manner. There’s also

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That Kind of Girl explores consent, body image through skits Creators aim to inspire confidence in female students with free show

By Zoe Sagalow @thesagaofzoe Staff writer Five female theatre majors spoke Friday about issues rega rd i ng women’s identities and places in society in a show filled with bold, behind-the-scenes examples of what it’s like to be a woman today.

Their free show, That Kind of Girl, on the steps in front of McKeldin Library was part of the University Health Center’s Sex Week. Through monologues and skits, the show addressed issues including patriarchal values, sexual assault, consent, body image and women pleasing men over themselves. Both male and female students attended, and passersby heard the messages too.

The show’s goal was to help people “have confidence in who they are,” sa id sen ior Rebecca Ba l l inger, who helped create and acted in the performance.

The show was originally performed Sept. 21 and 22 as part of student production series “Second Season” at

the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Issues the show explores have recently become a large part of the campus conversation, with the clarification of the definition of consent in the Code of Student Conduct this semester and the University Senate’s passage of mandatory sexual assault prevention education for the university community.

The actors brought pop culture into the show, discussing Robin Thicke’s hit song “Blurred Lines” in the section on patriarchy. They acted out Thicke’s widely discussed interview with men’s magazine GQ, in which he said, referring to the song, “What a pleasure it is to degrade a woman. I’ve never gotten to do that before.”

Ballinger and senior Emma Hébert conceived the idea for the show about a year ago, gathering a few of their friends to discuss issues of women’s identity, Ballinger wrote in an email.

Their idea was accepted for the university’s theatre, dance and performance studies school’s “Second Season” in the spring. The show also starred sophomore Korinn Walfall,

and 2013 alumnae Anna Lynch and Natalie Piegari.

Ballinger said to create the play, the students used Tectonic Theater Project’s Moment Work method, which pushes writers, directors, actors and others involved in theater to collaborate by taking on theatrical responsibilities beyond their assigned roles. The show’s collaborators discussed the relevant issues and combined the material to create the play’s scenes, she said. All included anecdotes were true events from the actresses’ lives. Throughout the show, the actresses used their real names.

Because they had to cast the show quickly, Ballinger said, they conducted outside interviews to increase the diversity of the play’s topics and used clips from some of these interviews as voice-overs in the show.

Stage manager Sophia Lewin Adams, added that the show was a group effort with a lot of individual responsibility.

“I got much more creative license than a stage manager usually does,”

REBECCA BALliNGER AND Emma Hébert kiss during That Kind of Girl on Friday. The pair created the show to address issues such as sexual assault and to inspire women to be confident. james levin/the diamondback said Adams, a junior marketing and theatre major.

Junior kinesiology major Ashley Green, who attended Friday’s showing of the play, thought the use of comedy to discuss serious issues was effective. “[Comedy] just made the audience pay attention when they got to serious parts,” she said.

Sophomore anthropology major

Anna Dottle, a member of student sketch comedy group SketchUp, said actors were “genuinely excited and passionate about what they were talking about.”

“You know that every time you see the show, it’s going to be different because they’re putting themselves into it time and again,” she said. zsagalowdbk@gmail.com

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QUARTERBACK CALEB ROWE entered Saturday’s 34-10 loss at Wake Forest in the third quarter in place of starter C.J. Brown. Rowe completed 12 of 27 passes for 207 yards and one touchdown as the Terps lost for the second time in three games. photo courtesy of adrian martino/the old gold & black

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leg got caught under a defender making a tackle, and he suffered a fractured fibula.

From PAGE 1 “It’s unfortunate,” Edsall said.

“I feel bad for both those as everybody knows,” coach Randy Edsall said. “I tried guys. We have to make sure we to tell our team that we were move forward.”

R o ss (ei g ht r u she s, 39 going to get their best effort.

It was their homecoming, yards) also exited the game coming off that win [over in the third quarter and did N.C. State] and plus with our not return.

A notable absence not resituation in the ACC. But we didn’t come out and match sulting from injury came in the their intensity early on. That’s third quarter, when Rowe took someth i ng that was ver y the field and Brown stayed on the sideline with a headset. disappointing.”

T he loss was the Terps’ Brown, making his first start second in three games after a since suffering a concussion 4-0 start. The efficient offense at Florida State on Oct. 5, was from the season’s opening 15-of-24 for 137 yards and two weeks was gone, replaced by interceptions in just more than an uneven group trying to a half of action. He was also string together consecutive sacked three times.

With the Terps trailing scoring drives.

24-3, Edsall opted to bring in The Terps (5-2, 1-2 ACC) still Rowe to try to bring the Terps picked up chunks of yardage and outgained Wake Forest back from their deficit. On his (4-3, 2-2), 383-307. But a series second play, Rowe connected of early miscues undid the with wide receiver Levern Terps, as the Demon Deacons Jacobs for a 56-yard touchdown pass to bring the Terps built a 24-3 halftime lead.

K i c k e r B ra d C ra d d o c k within two scores.

“I just felt like that things missed a 35-yard field goal attempt in the first quarter. that I saw, it was the best thing Midway through the second for our team to do and try to quarter, Brown led tight end move the ball in the second Dave Stinebaugh too far on half,” Edsall said.

But after completing four an out route, and Wake Forest cornerback Merrill Noel inter- of his first five passes, the cepted the ball. One minute strong-armed Rowe would later, quarterback Tanner struggle, often overthrowing Price rushed in for a touch- his targets. He finished the game 12-of-27 for 207 yards down from 4 yards out.

On the Terps’ next posses- and a touchdown.

The Terps entered Satursion, Brown threw another interception. Safety A.J. Mar- day’s game with the chance to shall stepped in front of Diggs clinch bowl eligibility for the (eight catches, 67 yards) near first time since 2010. Instead, midfield and snatched Brown’s their play reflected the past two pass. A few plays later, Price years, as the Terps fell to 1-9 in found the end zone again, this ACC road games under Edsall.

“I’ve got to do a better job time on the receiving end of a touchdown pass from wide in making sure they listen to receiver Michael Campanaro. me rather than listen to everyWhile the Terps set them- one outside of the program and selves back early Saturday, trying to congratulate them those mistakes could pale in on stuff we haven’t even accomparison to the injuries. complished yet,” Edsall said.

Early in the second quarter, “That’s something that I tried Long (four catches, 43 yards) to work hard on this week, and was blocking for running back we’ll continue to work on it Brandon Ross on the outside each and every day through when a Wake Forest defender the rest of the season. We’ll rolled up on his right leg, frac- get to where we want to go.” turing his tibia and fibula. In the fourth quarter, Diggs’ right dgallendbk@gmail.com

Wa s s u b! A s i a n F u s ion K o re a n B B Q o n a s u b.

T he loca l Cold Stone Crea mery served $5 ice cream, and restau rants i n t h e a re a , i n c lu d i n g Bagel Place, Pho T hom and D.P. Dough, offered 10 percent off menu items.

A nd for g uests interested in buying fresh local produce, a farmers market was set up next to the other food and business vendors.

University departments and community organizations also came out with fliers and other information for locals to learn about the groups and see how they could get involved.

The College Park Lions Club, for exa mple, is a 50-year-old branch of the international service organization that seeks to meet the needs of the city’s community.

Lions Club volu nteer Laura Salers said the group provides glasses and hearing aids for needy people in the community, in addition to conducting vision screen-

leap From PAGE 1 a large one-way mirror so parents can observe their children interacting not only in the classroom but also in the separate language labs when the children go in for therapy.

T h i s y e a r, t h e re a re 14 children enrolled: eight in the morning session and six in the afternoon, Handy said.

Anyone can enroll in the program. The attendees come from various surrounding areas, and Nan Bernstei n R atner, professor a nd hea ri ng a nd speech sciences department chairwoman, said parents generally choose LEAP because a university-based program offers many benefits independent schools can’t offer.

University affiliation means a lot of research and training goes into the program’s construction, and it’s cheaper than other private programs.

The program began in September 1993, and for the first 10 years, founders spent much time researching its effectiveness and validating the original curriculum developed.

“We weren’t just content giving the kids a curriculum or therapy; we were actually actively making sure that it worked,” Ratner said.

If children have language

gymkana TROUPE MEMBERS perform at the fourth annual College Park Day on Saturday, where city officials and residents celebrated local businesses. More than 80 vendors sold items at the event, which also had a farmers market and live music. rebecca rainey/the diamondback i ngs at Specia l Oly mpics Maryland through a program called Lions Opening Eyes.

“We also gave six $1,000 scholarships to Maryland high school seniors,” Salers said. “We would love for students from campus to join the Lions Club.”

Officers from the Maryland State Police, Prince George’s County Police and University Police, as well as College

impairments that aren’t addressed while they’re young, they may be more likely to have academic difficulties when they start school, said Ratner, the program’s founder.

It’s not about the language the children hear; rather, it’s about having direct interactions with people, she said, such as oneon-one conversations between students and teachers, which proved effective.

“We’re a language-based classroom,” Handy said. “So we immerse the kids in language concepts with everything we do.”

The curriculum focuses on different concepts each week, and each school day is full of playtime, instruction and therapy, she said.

The kids have one-on-one speech and language therapy sessions as well as story time, music, and alphabetic and social skills practice.

With its 20th anniversary, LEAP has had the opportunity to follow up on its own progress and the progress of previous attendees. Considering the roughly 300 children who have been involved over the years, “virtually all students” enter mainstream classes, Ratner said, and some become longtime friends.

Janessa Pope, a speech pathology graduate student, helps out with the therapy sessions. Pope and several ot her g ra du ate s t u d ents pull children out of class for 30-minute one-on-one speech and language therapy sessions.

Park, Branchville, and Prince George’s County firefighters, attended the festival to connect with residents and demonstrate their unique equipment for the public.

Officer A nthony Montgomer y, a member of the Metro T ra nsit Pol ice Department’s bomb squad, said College Park Day had a great turnout. He showed visitors

the bomb suits, robots and disruptors they use to handle suspicious material.

“Everyone is really interested in our equipment, so they’re coming up and asking a lot of good questions,” Montgomery said. “Kids are getting up, taking pictures with the robot — they love it.” ntomlindbk@gmail.com

outside lefrak hall, a playground is the site of recess for the LEAP program, in which preschool children play and learn language and speech skills. james levin/the diamondback Together, they work on skills such as language, sound-symbol association and sentence construction.

“The teachers are always constantly using speech and language as a way of interacting with the kids,” Pope said.

“We all know what the kids are working on; we’re all on the same page.”

The undergraduates who take part in LEAP see it as an entryway to graduate school, as it offers hands-on experience in the environment in which they wish to work.

“I obser ve t he t herapy sessions, and I see what [the kids] are working on,” said senior hearing and speech sciences major Taylor Wilde as she finished cleaning up the classroom after Friday’s

morning session. “And then I see how they’re applying it in the classroom.”

Although the undergraduates do not lead the therapy, they do take turns leading classroom activities with the children.

The LEAP program plans to celebrate its 20 years on Maryland Day in April and is looking into opening another location to focus on children with autism and creating a cochlear implant program for hearing at the current location, Ratner said.

“A lot of our kids come in here using single words,” H a n d y s a i d . “A n d w h e n they leave, they carry out conversations.” eserpicodbk@gmail.com

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Men’s club crew has strong comeback

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Three years after nearly disbanding, team in midst of successful regatta season

By Kyle Stackpole @kstackpoledbk Staff writer The men’s club crew team is in the middle of its best season since its founding in 1999. It’s medaled in every race it’s entered. The team has defeated rival Duke every year the two teams have met, and it expects to do so again in November.

Despite all the success, the team is just four years removed from being on the brink of collapse.

After continuing to build and expand since its formation, everything nearly fell apart in 2010. The stiff competition and high expectations separated the upperclassmen from the novice rowers. The members who wanted to participate for fun were unable to because of the coaches’ intensity. When the season concluded, all of the recreational players quit, many of the upperclassmen g radu ated a nd w it h on ly two rowers remaining, the coaches left.

Ja k u b B i e s a n d S h aw n Moore were on their own.

If they were unable to find enoug h rowers, the tea m would cease to exist.

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Bies and Moore decided to put all their effort into recruiting that year, rounding up eight men, the minimum for a standard boat. Each day was the men’s crew team rows on the Occoquan River during the Occoquan Sprints in April 2012. After a period of decline, the team is bouncing back. photo courtesy of mike mangino spent frantically teaching their recruits everything they knew we’re sort of seen as the same,” still has three races before the before the team’s racing season said sophomore mechanical season’s end Nov. 9. began. The process of putting engineering major Natalie The team established an the team together was hectic, Tham, who, as a coxswain, is a lu m n i orga n ization th is but the team did exist, and it in charge of steering and giving summer to help secure its was poised for future success. directions to the team during f u t u r e . M a n g i n o h o p e s “By the end of the season, it races. “While our club team is t he network w i l l b e able was a really tight-knit group [a] real school club, their teams to prov ide the tea m w ith of guys, and they just loved are only club in name.” coaches and donations for T h e t e a m n o w h a s 5 1 different needs. it,” sa id men’s crew Vice President Joseph Mangino, members, including almost 30 While the team works to a junior computer science novices. Mangino said inter- cont i nue its success t h is major. “From there, we have est is growing rapidly, and the season, some members ocrecruited more and more, club pulled in 350 email ad- casionally look back at how drawing in bigger groups from dresses at the First Look Fair. far the program has come Performance on the water since its near-dissolution that original eight.”

Members weren’t the only has helped, too. At the first three years ago. It’s similar problem th is tea m faced. race of the season, the Head to something they’ve been Because of Title IX, men’s of the A nacostia on Sept. d o i n g a l l s e a s o n w h i l e crew does not ex ist as a n 28, the Open Men’s 8+ and racking up the medals and NCA A sport, meaning all Novice Men’s 8+ boats both b e com i n g a top reg ion a l crew teams are subject to took home first place. The contender. club status, Mangino said. next day at the Head of the “One of the coolest things Most teams, however, are Potomac, two Men’s Open t h a t h a p p e n s i n ro w i n g funded by their universi- Pair teams earned first and is because you a re faci ng ties, he said. But this univer- second place. backwards, you get to look At its most recent race at at the guys you’re beating,” sity’s team doesn’t receive funding, placing it at a dis- the Head of the Ohio in Pitts- Mangino explained. “That advantage compared to other burgh, Pa., on Oct. 5, the team doesn’t happen in any other teams with extra money and placed second and third in sport and that’s just a really Men’s Open 2, while the Men’s cool feeling.” better equipment.

“Their club teams are dif- Open 4 and the Men’s Novice 4 ferent than our club teams, but each took second. The team kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

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university had never provided captions, Espo said.

After Espo filed the initial lawsuit in late September, university officials told The Diamondback that game announcements were adequately captioned online and provided on tablets patrons could request to use during games.

In a statement, Crystal Brown, the university’s chief communication officer, wrote that the university was committed to providing an “outstanding fan experience for all” and did not discriminate against people with disabilities.

“We offer accommodations that we believe are in compliance with the law,” she wrote, mentioning the online smartphone and tablet services.

But Espo said these measures still violate the Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act, which p roh i bit d i s c r i m i n at ion against people with disabilities in public places.

“I f you com mu n icate through the use of American Sign Language, you need your hands to talk, so you can’t talk while you’re holding your tablet,” he said. “They’re hard to read in the sun; they get ruined in the rain; we believe the quality won’t be very good because they seem to be using some sort of speech-to-text computer program rather than a live captioner.”

After first learning of these accommodations in The Diamondback in September, the plaintiffs tried to use them at the Oct. 12 football game but were informed the website was not working and captions were not available, according to the complaint filed.

Gary Muggleton, a sophomore family science major who is deaf, said this was his first semester at the university and he had only attended one football game, but he did not ask for captioning accommodations based on negative experiences with other sporting events. He’d asked the Bowie Baysox minor-league baseba l l tea m, Wash i ngton Redskins and Baltimore Orioles for captioning services and was ignored each time, he said.

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I’m used to sport stadiums not having captioning,” Muggleton said using chat software.

“I’m used to sport stadiums ignoring my requests all the time, so why should I bother?”

But Muggleton said the university’s tablet services wou ld n’t be adequate.

They’re like the captioning services provided in movie theaters, where deaf patrons have to get special reflector glasses at the box office.

B e c au se of t he h a ss le, Muggleton hasn’t been to the movies since 2010.

“I refused to go in there,” he sa id. “I prefer to wa lk into [the] theater screen like a normal person and walk out without having to deal with additional hassles with [the] box office.”

S i m i l a r l y, b o r r o w i n g tablets from the university would require fans to wait in lines to get them and return them, the complaint read.

Even those who do own such devices would have to go to a “fan assistance center” before each game and obtain the address and password for the website with captions, the complaint stated.

The university had 21 days to file an answer to the initial lawsuit, but because of the new complaint, the university has until Oct. 30 to respond, Espo said. Brown said the university’s legal counsel were reviewing the new complaints and did not yet have a response.

The system is “discrimination,” Muggleton said.

“How can UMD [have] a lot of time to give out free things, food, drink, and other things, yet they have no time for captioning?” he said. “From what I heard, Comcast Center offers free open captioning for high school graduation[s]. I mean, why not sports events too?”

With open captions, Muggleton said, he wouldn’t h ave to m i s s o ut on a nnouncements at events.

“I can use both of my hands for sign to communicate or eat,” Muggleton said. “It makes me feel like a normal student, like other hearing students.” amcginnisdbk@gmail.com

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When Mitchell came to the department three years ago, he emphasized adding an office analyst to study reported incidents, Limansky said. Officers are able to see “hot spots” — areas such as along Route 1 where officers frequently respond to incidents — by overlapping reports and analyzing crime trends, he said.

Theft remains the top reported crime, Mitchell said. From stolen bikes to laptops and cellphones, theft is the only category reported in the triple digits over the past five years, according to a 2013 report released by University Police.

To com bat t h ieve s, police have been placing bait property around the c a mp u s. For i n sta nce, they’ll plant bikes with tracki ng systems. If someone removes the bike from its initial location, police will follow the thief when it’s clear he or she plans to steal it.

For those who attempt to “make a living off the university,” Mitchell said, they might be deterred by the department’s surveillance on and off the campus.

“I honestly believe that the word is out,” he said.

In other categories, Limansky said single-digit f luct u at ion s i n cr i mes such as hate bias or arson may seem significant on paper — police reported three arson incidents in 2012 and one in 2011, along with seven hate crimes in 2012 compared to five in 2011. But the trends are m i n u s c u l e w h e n c o nsideri ng the u n iversity population.

During the school week, College Park sits behind Baltimore as the second most populous city in the state, Mitchell said.

“We have over 60,000 people — that’s just on campus,” he said. Add the number of permanent residents, and the city’s population is nearly 90,000.

Any increase in crime, no matter how small, is a concern to the department, Limansky said. But

37 percent decrease in crime in College Park from 2012 to 2013

0.21 robberies per 10,000 people in 2013

15 transports for alcohol-related emergencies in fall 2013 in comparison to neighbori ng cities, the u n iversity boasts an impressively low nu m b e r of i n c id e nt s, he said. In the meantime, officers are trying to change College Park’s reputation as a crime-infested city.

“It’s the perception versus re a l it y,” L i m a n sk y sa id .

“The facts just don’t bear that out.”

Two years ago, the department organized a City Multiagency Service Team that focuses on preventing crime in the greater College Park area. CMAST addresses both cri m i na l m isconduct a nd quality of life complaints, t wo i ss ues M itchel l sa id go hand in hand. Monitoring areas and maintaining the general conditions of a neighborhood could stop the number of incidents from escalating, he said. “ T h a t ’ s p a y i n g d i v idends,” he added. “As well as the partnership with the communities.”

T he city has a lso spent more than $1 million in cont ract i ng P r i nce G eorge’s Cou nty pol ice officers to patrol the neighborhoods, College Park Mayor A ndy Fellows said.

“Ma ny of us, i nclud i ng me, feel like College Park is a very safe city,” Fellows said. “We still want to continue to show improvements so people will feel safer and safer over time.”

Despite some off-campus incidents in the beginning of the year, violent crimes a nd ot her i ncidents have been down, District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich said.

“We’d like to live in a place w ith no cri me a nd that’s probably not in the cards,” Stullich said. “But what we can do is work with our police and support our police.” tamenabardbk@gmail.com

Nowcado app tracks, compares College Park beer, wine, liquor product prices

By Joe Antoshak @Mantoshak Staff writer College Park students s t r i v i n g to p a r t y o n a b u d ge t m i g h t h a v e a n easier time saving money on alcohol with Nowcado Local Shopping, a pricechecking mobile application that compares the product listings of local liquor stores.

Created by university alumni Avi Bardack, Bing Jiang and Ben Tousley, the app allows users to search for a speci fic a lcohol ic item, find the store with the cheapest price for it and get directions there from their current location.

A c t i v e fo r l e s s t h a n t h ree weeks, Nowcado (“cado” is pronounced as i n “avocado”) i ncludes only College Park liquor stores, though Jiang suggested a possibi l ity for expansion. The title combines the app’s two objectives: “Now” emphasizes the immediate aspect of finding prices and products online, and “cado” comes from mercado, the Spanish word for market and an allusion to the app’s shopping aspect.

“We started with Maryland because we’re Maryland graduates; we wanted to help Maryland students,” Jiang said. “So we want to build a community around here first and then grow that by adding more users.”

Jiang and Bardack originally reached out to store ow ners to gat her information but initially found hesitation and had to do most of the legwork themselves.

“Industries are hard to change, and a lot of store owners are very afraid of having their data public,” Bardack said. “We basically started seeding Nowcado with a lot of the data ourselves — just walked into stores and started typing in the prices.”

But that doesn’t mean the team is satisfied without store-owner cooperation, Jiang said. He hopes they w ill reach a future agreement to accumulate more data. “ We w a n t to h e l p

Alumni Avi Bardack (left) and Bing Jiang (right) pose with their new mobile app, Nowcado. joe antoshak/for the diamondback i mprove l ives, r ig ht? We want to make a difference,” Jiang said. “A nd it’s a lot more conven ient to users if all of a store’s prices are already on the app.”

N o w c a d o w a s d e v e loped almost entirely in one weekend, but the idea for it came to Bardack nearly eight months earlier. After graduating with a computer engineering degree, he and Tousley — who lives in Colorado — handle most of the appbuilding process while Jiang concentrates on marketing.

Nowcado’s most recent build features a newsfeed in which users can post information about sales, events a nd pa rk i ng ava i labi l ity.

These posts can be up-voted by other users to rank their relevance.

The group emphasized that steps forward in development would be determined primarily by user feedback. Despite it being their first mobile app, they said they are hopeful it will continue to grow in the university community.

“We know students are going to buy liquor — hopefully frequently — and they can use our app to really find exactly what they need,” Jiang said.

Bardack and Jiang agreed the app market is still conducive to small, up-and-coming developing teams, a quality that lends optimism to developers like them. Nowcado has fewer than 100 installs, but the group is confident in the concept’s strength.

“I think it largely has to do with what kind of idea you have,” Bardack said. “If you have a good idea, one that provides something functional that can help people, I think a startup can be just as successful. Really what it comes down to is: Are we bu i ld i n g somet h i n g t h at users want?” jantoshakdbk@gmail.com

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or 16 days during the government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of federal workers found themselves jobless. Military families faced uncertainty regarding paychecks and struggled to cope with the loss of child care and other services. Washington tourism slowed to a crawl as national monuments closed to the public. Estimates indicate the federal government hemorrhaged a staggering $24 billion. For 16 days, Congress failed democracy.

And it could happen again.

In what has become an all-toofamiliar pattern, lawmakers came to the bargaining table disturbingly close to a midnight debt ceiling deadline, delaying further economic fallout but accomplishing little else.

Mere hours before the Treasury Department faced the inability to repay the nation’s debt, the Senate voted to reopen the government and raise the nation’s borrowing limit. President Obama signed the bill early Thursday, providing for funding through Jan. 15 and extending the $16.7 trillion debt ceiling until Feb. 7.

All told, the federal government ended up much in the same place it started. Funding stands at the sequestration levels, across-the-board cuts that took effect in March after the last round of fiscal negotiations.

However, congressional Republicans had wrangled that concession from Democrats well before setting out to destroy the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Sixteen days after the government shut down, Obamacare emerged with a lone, minor alteration — tighter income verification standards for subsidy recipients in the newly formed insurance marketplaces. The law was virtually unscathed, Republicans’ ratings plummeted to historic lows, and the shutdown’s pointlessness proved abundantly clear.

This editorial board decried the shutdown from its inception; now, we urge lawmakers to put an end to this seemingly endless cycle of political brinkmanship.

Come January, Congress appears certain to repeat the debacle. The

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economy’s lost billions and the public backlash this time around may prove enough to dissuade lawmakers from shuttering the federal government two-and-a-half months from now, but Republicans and Democrats still seem unlikely to come to terms over the debt ceiling crisis.

Just 87 House Republicans voted in favor of ending the shutdown Wednesday. An astounding 144 voted against the bill. Though the bill passed by a 70-vote margin, it’s still staggering that after witnessing the shutdown’s devastating effects, so many lawmakers remained willing to hold citizens’ feet to the flames to further their political agendas.

After the relative anticlimax of sequestration earlier this year, the federal shutdown needs to demonstrate to Congress and the public alike the gravity of the current political climate. Widespread public apathy toward the shutdown — in fact, many viewed it as inevitable — speaks to the ubiquity of congressional unwillingness to compromise.

This isn’t what democracy was conceived to be: endless gridlock and perennial brushes with financial ruin. The day before the shutdown’s end, Fitch Ratings placed its opinion on the U.S. credit rating on Rating Watch Negative, citing the increasing risk of default. Though the debt ceiling was raised once more, it’s apparent that this recent cycle is far from sustainable — a fact many lawmakers have apparently overlooked since 2011, when the issue came to a head with the Budget Control Act. The federal government is floundering — that, at least, can no longer be ignored. Though it’s difficult to fathom the nation defaulting on its credit, every partisan clash brings such a disaster closer to fruition. We know it sounds like a broken record, but lawmakers need to construct a lasting compromise. And soon.

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Tommy Creegan is a senior government and politics major. He can be reached at tcreegandbk@gmail.com.

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Congress finally stopped playing politics and agreed to make the federal government fully operating. Here’s the simple information you need to know about the deal.

The deal temporarily suspends the enforcement of the debt ceiling, which will be set for Feb. 7; so essentially, we will have to go through the process of avoiding default again in two-and-a-half months. The debt ceiling is the amount of money the federal government is legally authorized to borrow. Because they have bypassed the enforcement of a debt ceiling, the government can borrow and spend as much money as it wants, without having to worry about the legal limit. Considering this problem initially arose because we have been continually running deficits, this move is fishy at best.

Despite the fact default was avoided, Chinese credit agency Dagong downgraded its U.S. local and foreign currency credit rating from A to A-. While this sequence may seem counterintuitive, the

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d o n ’t u s u a l ly h ave to vo i ce my opinion in something as serious as a guest column, but Marc Priester’s Friday column, “Patriarchy: Bad for everyone” l e f t m e fe e l i n g s o i n f u r i a te d that I felt I had to respond. It is the most vile and disrespectful piece I can recall reading in The Diamondback.

Priester chose to explore the plight of patriarchal oppression on women by using a metaphor that reduces a woman and her sexuality to nothing more than a commodity meant to be consumed by men. This metaphor just further reinforces the deeply rooted patriarchal notion that a woman’s sexuality exists solely as an object of a man’s desire and satisfaction. This alone makes the column a complete failure in its attempt to point out patriarchal oppression.

Then, there is his idea that the worst side effect of the “slut tax” and slut-shaming is its ability to “decrease the number of individuals in the sexual marketplace.” This basically states that because of slutshaming, there are fewer women with whom to have sex.

I don’t think Priester understands the breadth of problems and distortions caused by slut-shaming.

It teaches people a woman’s body is dirty, that a woman choosing to have safe, consensual sex with as many partners as she pleases is wrong if that number goes beyond a vague, uncertain and constantly shifting point. Slut-shaming perpetuates the idea that if a woman is dressing like a “slut” or commits actions that fall within the “slut” paradigm, then she is asking to be raped.

I’m sure women who struggle with body image, those ridiculed by their peers and society and survivors of sexual assault do not care about what slut-shaming does to their availability in his “marketplace.”

The greatest travesty Priester at-

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downgrade was hardly unreasonable.

In an official statement, Dagong said, “The [U.S.] government is still approaching the verge of default crisis, a situation that cannot be substantially alleviated in the foreseeable future.” The rest of the world is paying attention to our unsustainable debt and will likely face default in the future.

The deal, worked out between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), contains some extra perks for one of our “exemplary” leaders. McConnell received a nice kickback to his home state, as the measure includes a provision to raise the amount authorized for a dam project from $1.5 billion to $2.9 billion. While McConnell claims this was no earmark, it seems counterproductive to increase project spending during a crisis over the government spending too much.

If it weren’t evident enough before, all is not well in the Republican Party.

Establishment GOP members such as Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) are speaking out against the tea party — libertarian-influenced Republicans such as Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) who are largely to blame for the shutdown lasting so long. While the establishment players claim tea party members are irresponsible and destructive, the tea party, newcomers to the group, see the establishment as out of touch with the American people.

Having lost the past two presidential elections and this budget battle, it seems the two factions of the Republican Party are both coming up empty.

All in all, not too much has changed.

It’s great people can go back to work, but the underlying problems of our financial situation have not been addressed. Unfortunately, this won’t go away, and we will likely see many more budget battles in the future. Hopefully, they will become less partisan and more productive toward fundamental changes to the system, which will lead us to financial stability and security.

tributes to the patriarchy, a travesty that gravely oppresses both men and women, is its ability to act as a “cock-block like no other.”

Yep. Sure. The patriarchy is a cockblock. I understand and would like to apologize that the following examination of actual patriarchal oppression will be a general one. I just don’t think I have the knowledge and ability to truly dive into the oppression’s many intersections of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status, age, etc.

Saying the worst thing about the patriarchy is that it is a “cockblock” is so terribly offensive and disrespectful to countless people who are constantly oppressed by the patriarchy and the hurtful notions it perpetuates. The patriarchy leads not only to slut-shaming but also to the regulation of a woman’s reproductive organs, the disassembling of female-centric health care services, the notion of a woman existing only to please a man socially and sexually, differences in pay based on gender, and the disparity between the number of women versus men in STEM fields, politics and other arenas. And this is without looking at the oppression’s multiple intersections.

While men are faced with problems created by the patriarchy, they go much deeper than a man’s ability to find a sexual partner in the “marketplace.” Priester is not wrong when he says that the patriarchy is bad for everyone. I agree it “may be the most evil construct that is still socially acceptable,” but the reasons he cites are far from the problems at hand.

These problems are brought up without fully representing the myriad intersections of oppression.

Because of patriarchy, single fathers are seen as unfit for child care, as the role of caregiver is traditionally held by women. Because of patriarchy, a man, young or old, entering a park

with a young child will be seen as creepy, untrustworthy or as a possible pedophile because of this same notion that women are caregivers.

Because of the patriarchy, sexual abuse against men is often unreported because of the man’s fear of appearing weak or feminine. This also ties into the fact that reported abuses may not be taken seriously because of the distorted idea that men cannot be raped. So yes, the patriarchy is bad for everyone, but it is far from “screwing men just as much as women.”

As someone who identifies as a cisgender male — identifying with my biological sex — the same identification I believe Priester holds, I am a beneficiary of the patriarchy, as is Priester. The patriarchy has helped us throughout our lives in ways unvailable to women. It’s possible that in writing his piece, Priester was illinformed and naive to the ways it reinforced patriarchal notions and diminished the impact and severity of patriarchal oppression.

If that is the case, I hope he becomes aware of these problems and attempts to educate himself on the issues. I understand navigating this struggle may not directly affect him, but it can be a confusing undertaking.

However, if this is not the case, then I hope Priester realizes he is nothing more than a misogynistic perpetrator of patriarchal notions — a member of the exclusive, wretched club he considers to be “archaic and inhumane.”

Contrary to what the column states, the patriarchy is not the “remnants” of a “bygone system.”

It is alive and well, affecting women and men alike, acting as a constant influence in society, and it needs to be dismantled by women and men alike to fully erase its effects.

Sean Patrick Forsythe is a junior theatre major. He can be reached at sforsyth@terpmail.umd.edu.

Coding, part II ANAND GUPTA About a month ago, I made the case for learning how to code. I primarily addressed readers who, like me, have no background in coding whatsoever. My argument was that it is extremely beneficial from a professional standpoint to learn how to read and write a computer language in our highly tech-oriented world. From buying a simple cup of coffee at Starbucks to trading billions of dollars on Wall Street, understanding what goes on behind the scenes is an extremely useful skill.

In today’s column, I’m going to argue the importance of attending events organized by the student tech community and how those events can help you learn coding more easily – both in terms of the quality of your code and how fast you master some of the basic concepts.

First, hackathons. These are large gatherings of members of the hacking community where people come together to transform their computer coding ideas into reality in a matter of 24 to 36 hours. This could involve building anything from web applications to hardware. When I attended my first hackathon at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., a month ago, I didn’t have to pay for travel, food or lodging. In our “no free lunch” world, where else are you going to get such excellent perks while improving your skills?

The other evening, I met a senior economics and marketing major whom I encouraged to register for a hackathon at Yale. She told me that she needed to attain a certain level of expertise in computer programming before she felt comfortable

registering. If you feel this way, too, then I must borrow the metaphor used by David Fontenot, the director of Michigan’s MHacks, which is the largest student hackathon in the entire country. He says that going to hackathons is like going to a gym. You don’t need to be an expert bodybuilder to use the gym. Doing a few push-ups or squats at home isn’t going to take you far. Going to the gym helps you get inspired, pick up new exercising techniques (not easily accessible to you at home) and improve on your fitness in a systematic and scientific way.

Even if you know little about how a computer operates (and I can safely assume most people reading this do), you are ready to start learning at a hackathon.

The second option at your avail is Terrapin Hackers. The club recently became the 2013 hackathon season champions, beating out 110 participating schools, including MIT, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. They have hack nights every Wednesday from 6 p.m. to midnight where you can practice with experts, ask questions, get feedback and, in general, accelerate your learning. You should definitely start attending their events if you think you want to learn how to code.

Computers are involved in most important things you can think of in our economy today. Knowing the mechanics behind coding is going to be useful. You do not have to be an engineer or mathematician to learn coding. Coding need not be your primary skill set, but you will definitely catch employers’ eyes if you have it as a complementary skill. All you need is desire and willingness to learn. With that, I encourage you to sign up with the Terrapin Hackers Club for Y-Hack 2013, which will start Nov. 8.

Anand Gupta is a senior environmental science and policy major.He can be reached at aguptadbk@gmail.com.

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FEATURE | NERDFIGHTERS AT UMD

revenge of the nerds This university’s Nerdfighters club celebrates a love for a variety of nerd culture phenomena while creating an open, accepting community

By Zoë DiGiorgio @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback The chairs in Stamp Student Union’s Juan Ramón Jiménez room are usually organized in several neat rows, but on Oct. 10, the Nerdfighters at UMD spread them into a lumpy circle. As people began trickling in, several girls chose to sit on one another’s laps, hugging as they talked. This was a community; the members wanted to be able to see one another and interact.

Though there was an agenda on the board, the first order of business was socializing.

The next issue at hand: Should they show Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog or How to Train Your Dragon for the next movie night?

This was an ordinary meeting for the Nerdfighters. The group, which hosts events such as movie nights and outings to The Book Thing (a book co-op in Baltimore), holds weekly Thursday meetings, followed by trips to the dining halls to continue its conversations. The group is growing in popularity on the campus, but the core tenet tying the group together is sometimes unclear to outsiders. What exactly is a Nerdfighter?

President and founder Aaron Revere, a senior environmental science and policy major, explained that the Nerdfighters are a loosely organized group of fans of vlogbrothers, a popular YouTube channel started in 2007 that brothers Hank and John Green

update twice a week. Many followers of the channel are also active readers of John Green’s young adult fiction novels, including Looking For Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, which is being made into a movie.

However, at their core, the Nerdfighters are simply a group of nerdy people fighting to make the world a better place, Revere said.

Although the Nerdfighters were originally defined as the fan base for vlogbrothers and John Green’s novels, the group has grown to include any proud fans of nerd culture.

Members at the meeting demonstrated a wide variety of interests through their T-shirts and hoodies, which bore logos and slogans from Harry Potter, Doctor Who and Portal.

“A Nerdfighter is anyone who wants to be a Nerdfighter,” said Ben Shaw, a sophomore history major.

Though many Nerdfighters gathered at the meeting, this physical membership is a unique element, as the group is an offshoot of a mostly online community.

The broader Nerdfighter community grew and developed in its earliest days using Facebook groups, in which fans from all over the country could bond over common interests. Revere said he started watching vlogbrothers videos on YouTube in 2009.

He became interested in “Nerdfighteria” soon after watching.

During the spring of his freshman year, Revere became involved with the online community “Nerdfighters of the Greater DC

Area.”In 2011, Revere went to a group gathering and quickly made many friends.

“Tha t g roup o f p eople changed my life,” he said.

Revere realized he could easily connect with those Nerdfighters and thought it would be fun to start an oncampus Nerdfighter club.

He began the club in fall 2 0 1 1 . T h e g ro u p ’s i n i t i a l meeting consisted of eight people — the minimum required for a club by the photo by james levin/the diamondback Student Government Assophoto illustration by dan appenfeller and ciation, Revere said — in the mary clare fischer/for the diamondback Queen Anne’s Hall library and the nerdfighters at umd and other Nerdfighter groups around the country identify lasted about four-and-a-half themselves by a hand sign that looks like the Vulcan salute from Star Trek with both arms hours as the small membership crossed as well as the motto “Don’t Forget to Be Awesome,” popularized by the vlogbrothers. bonded over shared interests.

Today, the on-campus Nerdfighters have club, and they’re not expecting it. And they grown significantly: The club’s Facebook get really excited about it,” Shaw said. group has more than 150 members and about The term “Nerdfighter” has come to carry 38 members regularly attend meetings. significance, Revere said; meeting someone Shaw has noticed a surge in club member- and knowing he or she identifies as a Nerdship since his first semester at this univer- fighter establishes a basis for conversation. sity. He started watching vlogbrothers videos Both Shaw and Revere note the Nerdfighttwo weeks before coming to the campus and ers’ positive attitudes, which create a fun decided to attend meetings last fall after and welcoming community. hearing about the club at the First Look Fair.

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When I conceived the idea for this post, I was listening to Avicii, an artist I don’t really understand but like anyway. I thought, “Huh, DJs are pretty cool; I wonder what this university has to offer in that category.” And so an idea was born: Interview some DJs, get to know what kind of music they like and how they cope with the demands of their somewhat underappreciated role on the campus while they juggle the academic challenges this fine institution has to offer.

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madness From PAGE 8

From PAGE 8

during Maryland Madness.

Former men’s coaches Lefty Driesell and Gary Wil l iam s we re t h e re to share stories, as was former women’s coach Chris Weller.

Former players Juan Dixon, Walt Williams and Byron Mouton played in an alumni game. And current players even wore jerseys during the scrimmages emblazoned with names of former Terps greats instead of their own.

“I know everybody walked in here tonight, and you have a story,” Terrapins men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon told the announced 11,500 in attendance Friday night.

“Something in your life when you were here — a game, class, whatever it was — I know you have a great memory.”

The former coaches sure did.

Gary Williams told reporters before the event that he remembered visiting Cole as a recruit in 1963, playing there as a Terp a few years later and returning as coach in 1989. He led the Terps to the national title 13 years later.

But the former coach said his favorite memories of the building were hanging out with his players.

“A lot of funny things happen at practice,” Williams said.

Driesell seemed thrilled to be back in Cole. The 81-year-old constantly calls Turgeon offering advice; however, Turgeon didn’t use one of the renowned left-hander’s suggestions for Maryland Madness.

Driesell, who is credited with starting Midnight Madness in 1970 when he had his Terps run a mile in the middle of the night at Byrd Stadium, said he thought the event should be held at midnight. That is,

game there growing up. With parents from outside the area, I wasn’t raised on the Terps.

It was something I had discovered on my own, spending first-grade sick days watching the Terps during March Madness and seeing Steve Francis emblazoned on the Sports Illustrated cover for the 1999 NCAA tournament.

I looked forward to Sunday afternoons, when after my indoor soccer games I would sit at my kitchen table and watch the Terps play at Cole with Dixon, Steve Blake and Lonny Baxter on the court.

Obviously, everything climaxed in 2002 with the run to the national championship, a run that solidified Dixon and Blake’s place as heroes in my 9-year-old mind.

For me — and probably so

Tom mcmillen (right), a former men’s basketball player and current university regent, chats with former women’s basketball coach Chris Weller. christian jenkins/the diamondback Driesell said, when students “start to get right.”

“I can’t stay up that late, Lefty,” Turgeon told Driesell.

Friday’s event started at 6:30 p.m., well before Turgeon’s bedtime, and afterward, the third-year coach said he thought the night was a success. The vibrant fan base seemed to back that up.

Twitter, though, was abuzz with apparent frustration over a lengthy segment in which alumna Bonnie Bernstein announced dozens of players and chronicled the program’s history. Most of the seats also emptied well before the event ended, as spectators filed out after the men’s scrimmage.

Still, for most of the night, the crowd was loud, and Turgeon said the intimate Cole gave the event a distinct feel from that of the cavernous Comcast Center. And like Wells, Turgeon made sure to pay homage to the past in unique fashion when the announcer introduced him.

As the third-year coach walked through the tunnel, he made a “V” sign with his fingers, a motion for which Driesell was famous. Then he reared back his right arm and copied the fist pump that Gary Williams routinely gave to students during his tenure

in College Park.

When Turgeon reached midcourt to embrace his predecessors, the crowd’s noise level may have reached its peak.

“I think since day one I’ve tried to talk about history, and it’s the reason I took the job,” Turgeon said. “Our guys know what it means to me, and it means a lot to them, and I know our guys were excited to be in the building tonight.”

Wells is one player who has been emphatic about his fascination with the program’s history. And if Wells honored his predecessors by planting a kiss on the hardwood, perhaps he gave a glimpse of the Terps’ immediate future with his next act.

After the kiss, he rose up, took the ball from guard Seth Allen and threw himself an alley-oop. He lifted off the ground to catch the ball and did a 360-degree spin before slamming it through the hoop as Cole exploded with screams.

“I care about the legacy because I’m a part of that now,” Wells said. “You should care about the place that you are. You should care about things like that. It’s important to me.”

INJURIES From PAGE 8 another redshirt freshman, played in King’s spot at times Saturday but did not catch a pass.

“We have Levern, Malcolm, Nigel and Amba. Those four have all played this year,” Edsall said. “Again, now what we got to do is decide what that depth is going to be. Decisions will be made [today].”

Edsall also declined to give updates on running back Brandon Ross, who left the game in the third quarter, and quarterback C.J. Brown, who was replaced by backup Caleb Rowe in the third quarter. “ T h e r e wo n ’ t b e a n y updates until Thursday, unless other surgeries are announced,” Edsall said.

many others — Friday night was the opportunity to let all of those memories seep back in and take a courtside seat in front of history. For a few hours, I saw Cole used for its original purpose and soaked in the experience of the generations that came before me.

Comcast Center has had its own share of memorable experiences for me, as watching the Terps’ upset of Duke in 2010 had a direct influence on my decision to attend this university, and February’s victory remains one of the greatest sporting events I’ve attended.

But anyone walking around the campus notices the arcing green roof and brick facade of Cole. And most of us here have heard all of the stories about the building’s history.

Sitting in a Cole classroom formerly used for basketball study hall, I watched a parade of significant figures in Terps

basketball history enter and share stories. Williams, Driesell, former women’s coach Chris Weller and former players Walt Williams and Vicky Bullett brought the stories of the past to life.

It was different hearing them come straight from the source as opposed to in books or videos. It made the history of the building tangible and brought it out of my memories and into the present.

So while there wasn’t an ACC title at stake or a rivalry game on the temporary court, Maryland Madness served as a reminder of the history s ta n d i n g n ex t to S ta m p Student Union.

And as I move forward in life and in my career, it’ll also serve as a reminder that it’s OK to take a step back and take it all in. Sometimes it’s pretty cool.

The third-year coach did allude to Brown potentially suffering an injury. Brown was sacked three times by the Wake Forest defense and took a number of hits during runs.

“You always look at the health of our quarterbacks first and foremost and see how they came out of the game and go from there,” Edsall said. “And put the guy on the field that gives us the best opportunity to win based on the health of our quarterbacks.”

But Edsall also said Brown’s play may have factored into his decision to put in Rowe, who led the Terps to victory against Virginia on Oct. 12 while Brown sat out with a concussion. Brown threw two interceptions that set up two Wake Forest touchdowns and also accounted for minus-35 yards rushing.

“There was a few things that went into that decisionmaking to make that change,” Edsall said.

Edsall still refused to tip his hand before Thursday’s weekly injury report. While the injuries hurt a team on the cusp of bowl eligibility, that isn’t anything new for Edsall, who has dealt with an unprecedented assortment of injuries during his time in College Park.

“It’s football,” Edsall said.

“Injuries happen every day.

Injuries are happening in the NFL games today. They all know the risk that they take when they play the game.

Sometimes you get hurt. I hate for that to happen to anybody, but when that happens, you still got your job to do.”

the starting whistle, drawing a penalty corner in the first minute of the game. Fluharty blocked the shot off the set play, but Old Dominion midfielder Rosario Villagra eventually scored the game’s first goal after a series of rebounds.

After the early blow, the Terps struggled to advance beyond their side of the field during the opening minutes.

“They just came out ready to play,” Fluharty said. “They set the tone for the game, and credit to them.”

The Terps’ ball distribution was slower than it was Friday, and they struggled to control the ball cleanly. It was a letdown from their fast, fluid play earlier in the weekend.

“We let that game go,” defender Ali McEvoy said of the Syracuse win. “We debriefed [Saturday] and got our minds set for ODU.” Their main problem on Friday was finishing, however, and that crept in against Old Dominion. Over the weekend, the Terps scored four goals off 35 shots.

“We got a couple of good training sessions this week,” Meharg said. “These are

women that know how to score. They have scored.

Scoring can, unfortunately, go in spells.”

Forward Shelby Sydnor scored in the 16th minute to tie the game against the Lady Monarchs, and the Terps gradually created more scoring opportunities late in the first half and early in the second half.

But the Terps couldn’t finish their opportunities, and Old Dominion scored twice midway through the second half to build a two-goal lead.

The Terps’ effort toward the end got them close to forcing overtime for a second straight game. But they couldn’t overcome a poor start, which cost them their undefeated record.

Now they’ve seen that slow starts can hurt them, and they work to avoid that fate again as the postseason nears.

“I guess that you can say that it’s nice to learn that now,” Meharg said. “We look forward to this week, doing a lot of timed drills with how you start and making sure that there’s a really clear energy from the get-go.”

Gimenez then returned the favor, assisting Okoli to give the Demon Deacons a 4-1 halftime lead.

“To Wake’s credit, they were lethal in their finishing,” Cirovski said. “For the amount of chances they had, they were lethal.”

The Terps emerged with re n ewe d e n e rg y wh e n Metzger returned to start the second half.

In the 56th minute, forward Schillo Tshuma went down in the box after some contact, and Mullins finished the penalty kick in the top-right corner for his second goal of the game and 12th of the season. Sauers cut the deficit to one goal just less than four minutes later, burying a leftfooted strike from 20 yards in the bottom right corner.

The Terps maintained their offensive pressure during the final 30 minutes of the contest, and Mullins had a quality look clang off the near post.

“We dropped until the second half came,” Sauers said.

“But then we came back and shoved it down their throat.”

The Terps had several more chances in the game’s closing minutes, but failed to convert the equalizer.

The early deficit built while Metzger was sidelined was simply too vast to overcome.

“We can’t be giving up three to four goals a game and expect to be a championship team,” Cirovski said. “And right now we have to solve how to become a better team defensively, individually and collectively.”

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MONARCHS From PAGE 8 on Friday’s comeback win against the Orange.

“It was like a 70-percent day at the plant,” coach Missy Meharg said. “You strive to be the best — almost fake it until you make it, at times — and I’m not sure we did a good job of that.”

Like in the game against Syracuse, the Terps (15-1) and Lady Monarchs (9-6) were locked in a frenzied affair in the final minutes. The Terps played with an empty net for the last sixand-a-half minutes. Moments after the Terps pulled goalkeeper Natalie Hunter, Terps midfielder Maxine Fluharty scored off a long shot from the top of the circle, a similar range to her goal against Syracuse to bring the game into overtime. This time, however, it wasn’t to tie the game.

The Terps needed one more, but Old Dominion outlasted their pressure to complete the upset and earn their eighth straight win.

The Lady Monarchs attacked the Terps’ defense from

DEACONS From PAGE 8 goalkeeper Zack Steffen to give Wake Forest a 2-0 advantage.

The Terps responded in the 36th minute, though. A Wake Forest player fouled forward Patrick Mullins in the box and he finished the penalty kick to cut the deficit to one.

The Demon Deacons thwarted the Terps’ attempted first-half comeback with two goals over the final seven minutes of the period. In the 39th minute, Demon Deacons forward Sean Okoli cut to the endline and chipped a cross in front of the goal that beat Steffen. Gimenez was waiting in the middle to head his second goal of the game into the back of the net.

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WRs Long, Diggs out for season with leg injuries

By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer Terrapins football wide receiver Deon Long underwent successful surgery on his fractured right tibia and fibula yesterday morning, coach Randy Edsall announced on his weekly conference call. He also said Long is expected to return in six months.

Wide receiver Stefon Diggs, who suffered a broken fibula in the Terps’ 34-10 loss at Wake Forest on Saturday, could have surgery later this week or early next week, Edsall said.

Doctors told Edsall that Diggs’ recovery time is estimated to be about four months.

Long was injured in the second quarter when he was blocking on a play and a Demon Deacons defend-

er rolled up on his right leg. He was driven from the field on a cart and put in an ambulance before he was taken to a local hospital for X-rays. Diggs was injured in the fourth quarter when he was tackled after making a catch. He was walked to the sideline before exiting the field on a cart.

The loss of Diggs and Long deprives the Terps of arguably their two top playmakers for the rest of the

season. The duo combined to catch 66 passes for 1,076 yards and four touchdowns this season and often befuddled defenses. When teams would try to take away Long, Diggs would have opportunities for big plays, and vice versa.

The Terps’ third starting wide receiver from the beginning of the season, Nigel King, also has battled injuries this year.

Levern Jacobs and Amba EttaTawo are expected to step in for Diggs and Long, respectively. Jacobs, a sophomore, scored the Terps’ lone touchdown Saturday on a 56-yard catch-and-run and finished with 78 yards on three catches. Etta-Tawo, a redshirt freshman, caught six passes for 69 yards. Malcolm Culmer, See injuries, Page 7

BASKETBALL | MARYLAND MADNESS

A TRIUMPHANT RETURN

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Basketball programs connect with history, legacies during Maryland Madness at Cole Field House

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer While coming down the stairs from the Cole Field House concourse Friday night and high-fiving screaming fans, Dez Wells had a plan. When he finally reached the floor, the Terrapins men’s basketball forward ran to center court, bent down and kissed the oldfashioned “M” on the middle of the hardwood.

The smooch was a nod to the program’s past and to Cole, the Terps’ home from 1955-2002 and the site of Maryland Madness on Friday.

“I don’t know if I’ll get a chance to be on that court again,” Wells said after the first university basketball event at Cole in 11 years.

“That was just my token of appreciation for all the guys who came before me who made this place a historic place to be at.”

Wells’ peck was one of many odes to the past on a night rife with history. Back in Cole for the first time since 2002 — the year the men’s team won its only national championship — the Terps made sure to recognize the past with videos and special segments See MADNESS, Page 7

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Miscues lead to barrage of Wake goals in ACC defeat

Maryland Madness breaks down barrier between sportswriter, fan while bringing back memories DANIEL GALLEN As a sportswriter, I sometimes have the tendency to distance myself from the people I’m writing about or the events I’m covering.

It’s even easier to do it as a student-journalist. I don’t want to risk losing credibility or being considered a homer. So sometimes I just have to shelve my awe at a situation.

Maryland Madness on Friday night at Cole Field House, though, was different.

Seeing Gary Williams, Lefty Driesell and Mark Turgeon standing at midcourt on the old-style “M” after being introduced gave me goosebumps. Watching Juan Dixon and Byron Mouton, two childhood mainstays, play in the alumni game brought back my first memories of the Terps. And sitting courtside made me imagine what it might have been like to cover teams in the sweatbox.

It broke down that barrier I typically construct while on press row.

I never attended a Terrapins men’s basketball See GALLEN, Page 7

FIELD HOCKEY | WEEKEND RECAP

Terps score late but ultimately can’t make up deficit

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Staff writer For 65 minutes Saturday night at Ludwig Field against Wake Forest, the Terrapins men’s soccer team was sharp, but several poor stretches proved costly.

The group dominated play through the game’s opening minutes, creating the majority of the scoring chances while maintaining its formation in the back to prevent any Demon Deacon counterattacks.

But nine minutes into the contest, defensive midfielder Dan Metzger suffered a leg injury that sidelined him for the remainder of the first half.

The No. 4 Terps then collapsed defensively, allowing the No. 15 Demon Deacons

to net four goals in the final 25 minutes of the first half in an eventual 4-3 Terps defeat.

Metzger returned to the lineup for the entire second half, prompting a comeback from the Terps that energized the announced 3,829 fans in attendance, though the effort fell one goal short.

“When Danny Metzger came out, we didn’t really solve their transition game,” coach Sasho Cirovski said. “I know we made it entertaining for the fans today, and it was an exciting soccer game but very disappointing in terms of our responsibilities defensively. We got sloppy with the ball, which led to a lot of their chances.”

I n s i m i l a r fa s h i o n to Tuesday night against Marshall, the Terps opened the game pressing offensively.

But things changed when Metzger left the game with 36:20 remaining in the first half, forcing midfielder Helge Leikvang into action.

Metzger has been a defensive pillar in since his change from outside midfield to holding midfield in September, and the backline suffered immediately in his absence Saturday.

The first Wake Forest goal came when Terps right back Jereme Raley attempted to clear a low cross but misplayed the ball.

Seven minutes later, Demon Deacons midfielder Luca Gimenez charged down the right sideline, but the Terps backline failed to step up.

Gimenez slotted a shot past See deacons, Page 7

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ODU hands Terps first loss

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer Jill Witmer sprinted down the right side of the field with 10 minutes left against Old Dominion, leading a dangerous Terrapins field hockey counterattack.

Coming off a 2-1 overtime win against No. 4 Syracuse

on Friday, the Terps would have to to replicate their late-game heroics to overcome a 3-1 deficit against the Lady Monarchs on Sunday.

So Witmer, a forward, fired a shot that went wide.

Forward Alyssa Parker was a step too late to knock in the wayward drive, and the ball rolled out of bounds.

Witmer shouted in frustra-

tion; time was running out to rescue the result.

The Terps scored with five minutes left, but their squandered opportunities earlier in the game proved costly. No. 15 Old Dominion handed the team its first loss of the season Sunday, 3-2, as the No. 1 Terps failed to build See monarchs, Page 7